When You Don’t Feel Like Giving Thanks
Helen Keller had every reason to bitterly complain about life—she was blind and deaf as the result...
How My Husband’s Death Changed the Way I Saw Easter
How many times in my Christian life have I heard that Jesus rose from the grave? How many times...
Walking Through Tragedy: Looking for Graces
While driving one day, I was stopped at a busy intersection, and I looked up to see a beautiful...
How I found Stability in an Unstable World
“Ma’am, Your husband is dead.” I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was a terrible...
When Families Can’t Gather
Our mobile society has made gathering as a family even more important than in the past. It used to...
‘Mom, I Am Their Father’
My children were just babies when my husband, David, was killed in a head-on collision. Ben had...
Confessions of a Young Widow
Not long ago, I was in a discussion group of singles, but there happened to be one young married...
A Time to Grieve During Stepfamily Holidays
My stepson Will and daughter-in-law, Kirsten, were driving in from Dallas to stay at our house...
Finding my ‘Boaz’
When my husband, David, died in a terrible car accident in 2010, I grew close to my mother-in-law,...
Losing a Spouse is for Life
I was only married to David Beasley for seven years when he was struck and killed during a work...